What's Wright - NBA Playoffs Reaction: Kawhi goes NUCLEAR, Nuggets/Knicks SHOCKED + Lakers must-win!?

not get too low. Last seventy two hours, for the first time since I've lived in New York, got in a car accident. My fault wrecked my beautiful, just work of art car that I love so much, and I lost. I've lost every single bet I've made in these NBA playoffs, So you know what, sometimes you need that you need to just kind of be brought flying a little too high,

get brought back down to earth. I did. Everything I did this weekend are the exact things I've tried to counsel Demonsee on not doing distracted driving, check chasing my losses, check betting games that I don't really have a feel for, just because I'm trying to get even on the other one, check all of it, and so you know, it was just a really real tour de force. But I'm not gonna let that bring me down. Good to see you as always, demondse Happy.

because the other thing. You always counsel yourself not to do this, but it is so hard not to overreact to all these games. And so I watch Piston's Knicks and we're gonna get into a Piston's next game one and I'm like, ah, the Knicks are just so much better. These kids aren't ready. And then I'm there yesterday, I'm like man, the Pistons have been the better team seven of the eight quarters.

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They needed to get a split given how well they played and the opportunity to steal those games. The story, of course, is Kawhi Leonard now James Harden. After the game comes out and it's like, listen, Kuhi has always been disrespected or whatever it is, that's not true. I'm not gonna I'm not going to allow for revisionist history. I actually think Kawhi Leonard, throughout his NBA career has

never once ever been underrated. I think he has either been properly rated or he had a brief period of time right when he signed with the Clippers when he was a touch overrated. He's never been underrated, and everyone has always understood that a healthy Kawhi Leonard is a playoff monster. The question is has been the last few years hasn't even really been a question, just been an answer. We're not getting healthy Kawhi Leonard in the playoffs this year.

Through two games, you're getting it. He was okay in Game one yesterday, though, was the first truly great Kawhi Leonard playoff moment we've had in a couple of years. As you mentioned, he couldn't miss fifteen of nineteen from the field. What was he ten of eleven in the

first half? Thirty nine points, five assists, Good defense in a game in a night that Harden didn't really have it, that Norman Powell that the tiny violins were out because poor Norman Powell had his all star reserve spots stolen

by Lebron James showing up to the game. Norman Powell didn't have it, and Kawhi was exceptional, and I was skeptical on what we were going to get from Kawhi in this game because of how the schedule fell a lot of these guys, or a lot of these series, I should say, you had two days between games one and two for Clippers Nuggets. They played Saturday night and

then to Monday night. And when you had that Saturday night game go to overtime, you had and we again, we did a bonus pod yesterday and we're gonna do a bunch of those during these NBA playoffs. So we're not gonna do too much on Game one of that series today because we now have had Game two. If you want to hear my thoughts on game one on that series. You can check it out on YouTuber on

the podcast feed. But game one going to overtime Saturday night, and then a quick turnaround Game two at altitude, when Kawhi and Harden both played forty plus minutes. I was really skeptic or pessimistic is probably the right word about how sharp Kawhi was going to look. And while Harden looked a little fatigued, Kawhi absolutely unequivocally did not. And he was the best player on the court, Which does bring us to Nikolejokic, who you do not to. You're

not gonna kill the guy, but fair is fair. He is universally regarded as the best player in the world. That was a game his team could have won, and Jokic, for the first time, honestly in a couple years, I thought, had a downright bad playoff game. I guess you could argue Game seven again last year against the Timberwolves, just by virtue of blowing that big of a lead at home. But Jokich seven turnovers in the fourth quarter, three turnover.

You mentioned the miss free throw late he had By the way, he missed two free throws late in game one, they were able to overcome it after the biggest play of the game in Game one, he trusted and open Russell Westbrook to hit that three. That was why you know that the Clippers were daring him to take. Last night, after was a Christian Brown's awful shot, Jokich had Aaron Gordon wide open in the corner, the spot Gordon likes instead, and it was very uncharacteristic. He took the shot. It

wasn't even close. He was kind of flopping about throughout the night. And that was the first game in a again, depending on how you judged, just the game seven team wide meltdown. And I know he had a triple double. And I'm curious you can put in the the chat Daniel that I can see or in this you know our notes if you think I'm being unfair Daniel or resident Nuggets fan and you're allowed to have bad playoff games. Even the best player in the world can have bad

playoff games. It was just jarring to see him that lose with the ball and to see a game that the Nuggets could have won. But he's got aware that

he was a big part of the loss. And so I think that if you are the Clippers through two games, the most optimistic thing for the Clippers through two games, other than stealing home court is you're kind of happy with how you've dealt with Joker, And I know it's a testament to his greatness, But twenty nine to nine to twelve, Game one on fifty percent, which is about as low of a percentage as he's gonna show in a game twenty six ten or twelve and ten with

seven turnovers, again on fifty percent. Game one horrendous defensively in the first quarter, and then tighten it up and Game two really loose with the ball late. So I think most of us, if you picked the Nuggets like I did, the argument and the thought process was with respect to Zubats, who did as good of a job

as anyone in the league this year guarding Joker. You thought Joker would be so far and away the best player in the series that it would be enough to overcome the fact that the Clippers are a deeper team up to this point. That has not been the case, and it is not something I think will continue. But it also would be almost disrespectful to his place in the league to not acknowledge, Hey man, need more from Joker in a game that's in the balance like last night.

And here's the other piece that worries me for the Nuggets. So Michael Porter Junior, after being put on ice in game one, they put him in in Game two. He rebounded, He played his thirty three minutes, hit him threes, fifteen points, fifteen rebounds. He had a few turnovers as well. I mean the twenty turnovers for the Nuggets just killed them, and going fourteen of twenty two from the line didn't

help either. But the other piece of that is after the game he talked about injuring I think his shoulder. They do not have the depth. This is one of the reasons Calvin Booth is no longer employed as the GM. They do not have the depth to have any of their five startup missed time because you're already you're playing your five starters, crazy heavy minutes playing Russell Westbrook, in

my opinion, more minutes than is really you know safe. Now, I know Demons sometimes thinks I'm too hard on Russ, and Russ has not been a problem this series.

if Michael Porter Junior is truly banged up. So that is up to this point in the playoffs, I thought we had a super impactful and it would have been an absolute shame of an injury on Easter because I thought Jason Tatum broke his hand the way he was reacting.

and you're you're gonna laugh at me. When I saw the way he was grabbing his wrist, like his hand and his wrist like this, and then I also saw the way he fell, I was like, well, that's exactly how I fell a year ago when I broke my arm, and exactly when I broke my you know, arm, wrist whatever, And it's exactly how I you know, when I fell, how I tried to break my fall just kind of awkwardly palms down and I was like, I mean you And so I was like, oh, that certainly is a

mechanism where and it doesn't even hurt that bad. It's just like, oh shit, like you know what I mean, I just broke my arm, and the way he was holding it, I was like, oh no, like this is his shooting hand. That it's I thought he was going to be out. Who did not think he was going to be out was Joe Missoula. The trainer is trying to go over to Tatum, and Missoula says, like, stops him, and then you see him yell, get up like just a madman.

All right, what are our follow ups? Where you get to Nick's pistons.

game impact. So like Game one of this series, that was healthy Kwhi he had twenty two points on fifteen shots, good efficiency and seven turnovers. So that is like, that's that just is what it is. Now last year he was not healthy. In the playoffs. Two years ago, he was healthy those first two games. And in Game one two years ago against Phoenix, he was a lot like

he was last night. He had thirty eight points on fifty four percent from the field in a win, and in Game two he had thirty one points in on fifty five percent and a loss. I So here's I guess the point I'm making Healthy Kawhi is an awesome playoff performer, and the way he raises his game in

the playoffs is really the stuff of legends. But we don't need to act as if you know that meme people put up sometimes like they show you an athlete, like there's like four NBA players and they'll show you Steph Curry and it's like but with shack size, or they'll you know, it's like add one attribute to these great players. We don't need to act as if the only thing standing between Kawhi being, you know, the greatest

player of all time is his health. Like, Kuhi is an awesome player and health robbed him of a bunch of great playoff runs. But Kawhi at his peak was never the best player in the world. And so a healthy Kawhi I am not going to put over Jannis, Luca or Joker, all of whom either have been or will be the best player in the world. And I'm not right now, I don't think Kawhi is going to be better the rest of these playoffs than Steph or Lebron. And so I understand Lebron had a really bad game one,

and if we want to argue the Lebron. Think Lebron's seven years older than Kawi, that Kawhi has passing, so be it. So I think that's right where he lands in that hierarchy. I don't think that's disrespectful to him. I also think it's worth noting that this year on his team, James Harden was the best player, so like now James Harden's the opposite as far as his playoff performance plummets. So I'm not I'm not at all trying to take away last night was the best game anyone's

had in these playoffs so far. I think that's pretty clear. Yeah right, there's there's no one I'm missing. With that said, there's only been ten games like and so now it'll when the playoffs are over, it'll still be one of the best games. But yeah, so that's that's where I have it shake up. All right, One last question here before we move on to Nick's pistons.

NBA calendar real quick. So let's just assume OKAC is going to sweep Okay just for the sake of argument. Game two, uh is tonight. Game three in the OKAC series is Thursday, and Game four is Saturday, so they could be done on Saturday, April twenty six. If this series does go seven, that Game seven is Saturday, May third, which would put game one of Round two Monday, May fifth. So if the Thunders sweep, they will have nine days off in the middle of the playoffs just to rest

recuperate all of it. Now I understand people will be like Rust versus Rest. The Thunder too good for that to matter. And these two teams are gonna beat the hell out of each other, all right. Speaking of teams that want to beat the hell out of each other, let's do Nick Pistons from last night.

three in Detroit, which typically happens. They then win game four to retake control of the series, and then relax a bit, lose a game five, and then wrap it up in six. So sometimes a six game series there isn't a lot of If it goes up to h up three to one, winning six, there's not a lot of pressure points. And so I thought that the Pistons

threw their best shot in Game one. The Knicks overwhelmed them with that twenty one to nothing run, where they looked frazzled, where they looked young, where they looked unable to find their offense. I was like, oh, okay, so that happened without anyone on the Knicks having this outlier game. So now they're just going to get rolled in Game two. And I mentioned losing all these bets. I my bets on the Knicks were at the game at halftime because I was like, oh the Pistons, you know are they're

up six the Knicks had at that point. I got into the free throw line one time. I was like, they're gonna get the calls in the second half. Cadi'll cooled down, you know that Jalen will get rolling, and the Pistons won't have enough offense. And I was kind of right that all those things happened, except for Caid cooling down. The Knicks got after shooting two free throws in the first half, shot seventeen in the second half. The Pistons only made six three pointers the entire game.

There Jalen you know, flopped around, but also you know, got to the bucket and scored. He scored thirty seven. The problem for the Knicks was other than Jalen Brunson and Miles McBride, who the hell was ready to play? I mean, Josh Hart did Josh Hart things, but he's not a reliable shooter. Karl Anthony Towns no showed, just no show. I mean it was after such a good game one from Kat, he let the Pistons big men punk him throughout the night, the greatest, the self reclaimed

greatest shooting big man of all time. It only took two threes. Og couldn't slow down Kate on one end and couldn't get his offense going on the other end. And Michale Bridges, who was okay but man missed so many what could have been not dagger but game changing threes. And now the Knicks, all of a sudden, with a somewhat banged up Jalen Brunson, find themselves in a real fight. And the problem with that is this Pistons team is so young and so athletic that they are just going

to keep coming. And I shouldn't say they're so young because they do play ten Hardaway Junior and Tobias Harris big minutes and shrewder. But really I'm talking about Cad Jalen Duran and Asar who I mean, he and his brother. If either one of them ever learned to shoot, look out everybody. They're just defensive madmen, you know that are just insane athletes, just like insane athletes, and they're just gonna keep coming at you. And the Knicks meanwhile, I mean,

we know what Tibbs is gonna do. From a minute's perspective. Everybody's gonna be playing forty plus and now they're in a real fight, and I can't imagine how on fire that Piston's crowd is going to be. So yeah, like that is the thing about not having won a playoff

game since two thousand and eight. An underrated all time run by the Way Demands was the three two two thousand and eight Detroit Pistons, the Chauncey Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace, Tayshaun Prince oh three fifty wins, Conference finalists, four fifty four wins, upset the Shaq Kobe Lakers to win the championship. Five fifty four wins, lose in seven to the San Antonio Spurs in the finals. Six sixty four wins, lose

in the conference finals to Shaq d Wade. Oh, seven fifty three wins, lose to twenty two year old Lebron in the conference finals the forty eight special game. You know what I mean is what flips that series? Eight fifty nine wins, conference finals, lose to the Big Three Celtics. So that team from three to eight, six seasons fifty plus wins every single year? Was that seven seasons? Uh well from two from two to eight, which is the seven seasons, they had fifty wins every single year. But

three to eight they made the conference finals. Every single year. They made an NBA Finals and won it, made an NBA Finals and lost to uh maybe you know one of the best Spurs teams ever in seven and the teams that beat them after they won the championship and then lost the finals in seven, they lost to the I think I said Shaq Kobe heat, the Shack D Wade Heat, Lebron and the Big Three Celtics. But I say all that to say this that was the last

time they won a playoff game. The last playoff game that they won was against Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett in two thousand and eight. George W. Bush was the president. Since then, they have made the playoffs three times swept, swept, swept, And since they were last swept by Giannis in twenty nineteen, they have won the following number of games twenty twenty, twenty three, seventeen, fourteen, and in this year forty four. It's an unbelievable single

season turnaround. That and those kids now think they can win. And here's the other important thing. They think I They think they have the best player in the series, and that is I Cade, to me this year had a better season than Jalen brunt. I'm not ready to say he's a better player than Jalen Brunson, but on my fake all NBA teams, I think I had Cade's second team and Jalen third team. I'm pretty sure that's how I had it. And now the Pistons feel like we

can beat him up. Karl Anthony Towns is gonna back down, and they are and they are not afraid. And so I was shocked watching that last night that the and some breaking new sham says Dame is playing tonight. That's not I mean once he was upgrade to questionable. That's about what we expected. We'll talk about that in a

bit with Pacers Bucks. But I thought last night that that when the Knicks were slowly chipping away, demanse that if they could just get over the hump, the garden was so electric and the Knicks at that point were getting every call that I said, Okay, I think they're gonna win. And then to his credit, man Dennis Shrewder bang bang Yeah. But after the Shrewder three, the Knicks had plenty of opportunities. Man, they like we can. The Shrewder three was obviously the biggest shout of the game.

But after the Shrewder three and we ended up with I got very lucky. I was able to buy kind of last minute some really good seats, so we were right behind the Knicks bench. Shout out John Taturo of Rounders and Severance and every a bunch of other uh fame who we got to talk with for a moment. Uh. After that three by Shrewder, the Knicks possessions were Jalen Brunson pull up three decent look miss. McHale Bridges pull up three wide open miss. They then foul Shrewder. He

only goes one of two. So now there's eight seconds left, you have your time out, you're down four. Make a shot and you're gonna have a shot to tie it. And Jalen Brunson open three kind of miss and game over. And so just a brutal, brutal close to the game there for for the Knicks.

Og and Cad. Those are the five best guys in the series, right, It'd be pretty remarkable if he pulls this off. What's Matthew and the Chad Askin.

out the Timberwolves. And so I'm sure Lebron, who's very, very strategic and understands how much you know, how many he has left in the gun better than any athlete in sports history, which is why he's been able to perform at this level for as long as he has. I'm sure Lebron was hoping to not have to shoot one of those bullets in the second game of the playoffs, But if they lose tonight, they they just might be done. Like I'm not, it's not a I feel like if

the Rockets lose Game two, they are done. That is a true must win for the Rockets. They are too young and too inexperienced to lose both of the games at home to a championship caliber team or a champion champion leaden team in Golden State and come back from it. I won't call, I won't officially right off the Lakers if they lose this game tonight, but they will be

on life support. And so that means Lebron has to be more aggressive from the beginning, like this is to me, demon's I'm going to talk about all four of those guys. For Lebron, it's simple from the opening tip. He needs to be more aggressive offensively Julius Randall seemed to want to take on the challenge of going at Lebron on

one end and guarding him on the other. Awesome, that is a that is a real opportunity for Lebron, and to also put Julius on the defensive, so to speak, from the opening tip, which I think could leak into Julius's offensive game, which while he hit open threes in Game one and give him credit for it, he also had seven turnovers. He also seemed a little too eager to go at Lebron and I don't think that's a

winning matchup for the Timberwolf. So Lebron's just got to be more aggressive from the opening tip and as opposed to lighting the game come to him Austin if they are, Austin cannot let the Timberwolves get away with guarding him.

With Mike Conley, the Timberwolves are at an offensive edge if they are able to keep Mike Conley on the floor big minutes because with Aunt being a willing passer, if you also have Mike Conley out there and you have two willing passers at the guard position, with that many good shooters that they have, the Timberwolves will be even harder to defend. The way to play Mike Conley off the court is to make him defend. They are

going to try to hide him if they can. I'm sure they'll try to hide him on you know, Dorian Finney Smith. I guess, but he's probably gonna end up matched up on Austin. Austin has to make him pay Luca very simple. The Lakers are at their best when Luca is collapsing the defense and sprang it out to open shooters. Thirty said, Luca played well in game one.

The idea that he should be you know, how accountable he is for only having the one assist when a lot of guys listen, there weren't open shooters, and guys when they were open weren't making shots. I'm not killing Luca for that at all. However, they lukea in that game created forty points. That's not gonna be enough because he scored thirty seven and had one assist. I'm Luca doesn't have to score thirty seven. They do need him

to have eight, nine, ten assists. And then JJ and this is really interesting because JJ and I don't know how much of its games been I don't know how much of it is Not wanting to tip his hand, but JJ saying basically in these press conferences, I liked what we were doing schematically, we just didn't execute. I I didn't like what they were doing schematically. I'm not scapegoating JJ. The players did not come out with enough force or energy or intensity. And JJ's been excellent all

year long. But the Timberwolves are at their most dangerous when Anthony Edwards is creating shots for other people. They're seven to oh this year when he has eight or more assists. Last year in the regular season, they were nine and three when he had eight or more assists, and the three losses they averaged one hundred and sixteen points. So the offense wasn't the problem. The year before that, they were six and zero in the regular season when

he had eight or more assists. That tells you two things. One is it's a rare occurrence. Then Anthony Edwards is close to double d it assists. The other one is that's when their offense is humming. And so no, I don't think nas Reed and Jaden McDaniels are going to score at the level that they did in Game one. But I also think that It wasn't just dumb luck

that led to them scoring at that level. It was the fact that the Lakers were terrified of Anthony Edwards getting to the rim on them, and because of that, they collapsed a defense that already was packed in the paint. And of those forty two Timberwold shots, thirty seven of them were classified as either wide open or open. They weren't making tough, contested threes, they were making practice shots.

So Lebron's got to be more aggressive. Luca has to try to spoon feed Dorian and Ruie and Austin some open looks. Austin has to be more has to be more willing to try to hunt a Mike Conley mismatch. And JJ has to really figure out is Anthony Edwards at his most dangerous when he's flirting with a twenty and ten or when he's flirting with a thirty five point two assist game? Because I would rather sign up for the thirty five point two assist game if I'm

the Lakers. So that's my thoughts on the series. Demand how much trouble do you think the Lakers are in before we move on?

shots go in and feeling good about their offense. Yeah, it's a it's another reason to not let the defensive approach be. Have everyone else other than Anthony Edwards beat you. I just think it's the wrong approach. All right, let's do Rockets Warriors.

NBA game. And despite that, they got it to a one possession game late, They had it to a four point game when they should have, you know, with the ball at one point in the fourth quarter. They just couldn't get over the hump. So the how do they turn things around? Amen Thompson needs to be better defensively. Listen, young player, first playoff game, he's chasing around Steph Curry. Get it, no problem. Game two's got to be different. Jalen Green has to show up. If Jalen Green, Fred

van Vliet I believe will show up. I just think he had a rough shitight. Fred van Vliet's a champion. Fred van Vlietz played big and big spots. Jalen Green has got to get you at least twenty. They're just not gonna score enough points otherwise. The reason for optimism for the Warriors is you played Stephen Jimmy huge minutes. They the optimism for the Rockets. I should say. They answered with fifty six points between them, but the rest

of the team only scored thirty nine. Draymond was unbelievable defensively, but he had another triple single. They pods gave you a little. Moody made one shot. They're throwing Gee Santos and Quinton Post who really shouldn't be on the court in high leverage playoff spots at this point in their career. The Rockets have more high quality rotation players. They just have nobody, it seems like, other than Van Vliet and Shinnon that are confident offensively. And so yeah, Dylan Brooks

needs to make the Rockets. Ultimately, when needs happened is Rockets got to make some shots and they cannot fall down two at home. Now. I thought that they were going to win Game one. I obviously was wrong. I don't think the Warriors have enough high quality players, and I don't think you can rely on Steph and Jimmy to combine for around sixty in every game in order for the Warriors to run away with this series. But

my pick was Rockets in seven. And I will admit I watched that game thinking, okay, let's say we get to a game seven. Who the hell on the Rockets is not going to be absolutely petrified every time they have the ball. In that game seven, and now, Shingoon was more aggressive offensively than he was in most games, the only average eighteen points a game the regular season. Draymond was daring him to take those ten twelve fourteen footers.

He took him, he made them. Shingoon's got to be even more aggressive offensively, like flatly, Shingoon's just gotta say, it's not really my game, but I'm gonna try to go out here and score thirty. I'm gonna make you double me and see if that can generate some open looks.

And so I thought the Warriors. I thought there was a real cost to manse for the Warriors almost blowing that twenty three point lead, because if you heard that Steve Kerr huddle, he said to Steph and Jimmy, he was like, you guys are gonna play forty plus minutes do you need a break? Are you tired? And they were like no, and he ran with him through the end of the game. I don't think that's what they wanted to do.

minutes guy, even in the playoffs. So Steph last year against the Lakers or two years ago, last time they made the playoffs, had one game in that series when he was at forty minutes and they lost. It's like

they were cruising. They lost the series. Steph against the the Kings that year, they used him super heavy minutes in down two to one in the series, and then in Game five forty two and forty two minutes, and then they just couldn't use him insane minutes in game six and in Game seven, where he had one of his greatest playoff games ever a fifty piece. In Game seven, he still only played thirty seven minutes, even though he had fifty points the previous year they made the playoffs.

When they won the championship in twenty twenty two, that entire playoff run, Steph had one game where he played more than forty minutes and was forty minutes forty one seconds. So like it's he is not a guy, and that's when he obviously was far younger that historically. Because and this isn't a knock on him, the guys out there running mini marathons, you know, without the ball that is gonna be playing these super heavy minutes. Now with Jimmy, they can survive the non Steph minutes in a way

they couldn't before. Buy think the Rockets are gonna wear him down if this can be a long series. But in order for this to be a long series, Rockets have to win Game two. All right, let's get to some of these other series. But before we do that, let me tell you guys about our friends at DraftKings. The NBA eighty two game grind is done, and now the real fun begins. The NBA Playoffs are here and it's time for all the high stakes, drama, clutch moments,

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the court and equality players sitting on the bench. Every other team. You watch them and it's like in Milwaukee more than anybody Milwaukee, you watch him and you're like, there's one guy out there that I that I think is a quality player. I mean, Torrian Prince has been cooked for a couple of years. But Arvin ham loves him, loved him with the Lakers, loves him. There Kuzma twenty point twenty minutes, zero stats, Brook Lopez, God, love him. What are we doing? Not? What are we doing? He's

just old? And Ryan Rollins it was a starter. So you look at them and it's like, Okay, yes, Dame Will help, and Gary Trent Junior's good and Bobby Portis is good, but they don't have enough good players. The Pacers, to their credit, have a bunch of good players. They have no great players. They're one player who can be great. Halliburton had an off night, it didn't matter, and so

I think the Bucks are in real trouble. I also think it would be foolish to expect Dame after a month off to come back and immediately look like Dame, and Dame is not going to help you defend the Pacers, who scored sixty seven in the first half games over a halftime is thirty six and twelve. You're down sixty seven forty three and a half. So I picked the Bucks because I wanted the Bucks to win, because I like Giannis. I think there now again overreaction, you know, to all these game ones.

should be on every day. Uh you know, so the I'm not going to get and we've got some NFL Draft stuff later in the week, so the other series we can just do quickly. I'm just gonna tell you guys right now, I do this for a living. I love the NBA, I love the playoffs. I do not feel a personal nor a professional obligation to really watch three of these series. Celtics Magic. I don't feel like I am doing anyone of disservice by just passively having on in the background Calves Heat. I might not watch

a second of it, I'm telling you right now. Like it's gonna the and thunder Grizzlies, you almost want just to see how bad of a massacre it can be. But like tomorrow night, we have the old seven o'clock Magic, Celtics, seven thirty Heat, Calves and then nine thirty one Warriors Rockets tomorrow night. You know what that sounds like to me? To Monday, that sounds like a date night, an early dinner date night, and then back in the house Warriors Rocket.

fifteen of forty four. It doesn't matter because the Magic can't score. Paalo scores thirty six, the rest of the team scored fifty and heat Calves. I can't tell you what happened. I can't tell you the score. I'm I don't even was that game Sunday?

a very awk. Like usually when someone's like, hey, do you mind if I turned something on, the answers always no, of course, go ahead. But if Warriors Rockets was the early game, the answer would have been yes, I mind, and know you can't. But it was Heat Calves. So I watched a little It was two Canadian teams playing each other. It is Toronto against Ontario. Maybe I don't know, but whatever, I watched a little playoff hockey shout out to me and so Heat Calves. I don't know what happened,

und I'm looking. So I don't have analysis for you on it. I don't feel like I'm not doing my job because of it. I am. I'm just those series are over. Let's all right, remember like rate, subscribe, review, do all that cool stuff. And it was Toronto Ottawa. There we go, all right, let's do some listener questions.

due to injury. But if he wins a championship here and listen, the Clippers are not gonna win the championship. But if he were to, then yeah, then you have to say that he Like right now, I don't have him ahead of and I know this will irk people on my all time whole career list. I don't have him ahead of James Harden. I understand why is a champion and Harden isn't. But Harden has you know, ten

unbelievable seasons and Kawi just you know has four. Uh, But if you were to win the championship even alongside Harden, Harden gets a ring too. He then jumps him. If Kawi is the man on the run, all right, we have another Kauhi question.

I'm I'm not acting like I never did that. So I when the TV show first started, especially when like you know, TV show was on in the morning, I would sometimes intentionally just send a totally banaal tweet, like with two minutes left in a one am Lakers game, just be like, man, I'm watching this, then I'm gonna be up. I don't feel an obligation to do that anymore because I feel like I I've established myself as someone who watches the games, so the I don't think I

feel like I have to prove it to everyone. And I'm not saying everyone does that, but some people are definitely doing that. And here's the other thing, because I did you know, I made it clear I don't read my mentions, but I do occasionally when I open Twitter click that tab and just you know, see it for

a second, and there was a lot of folks. Oh, after I tweeted out the link to yesterday's emergency pot, a lot of people like, oh, this guy was hiding all weekend because the Lakers lost and the Warriors won and blah blah blah ah this stuff. I'm now gonna

say something really obnoxious. I understand why for folks fan adjacent people who might have, like you know, a team oriented spaces that they do on Twitter or a very very lightly listen to them and their friends podcast, but have a legitimate social media following view media through the prism of if you're not giving your take on Twitter, you didn't give your take. I happen to have enough real platforms that I can say nothing on Twitter and the whole world gets to hear what I had to

say anyway. So I don't feel an obligation to be like, oh man, Laker's in trouble in one hundred and forty characters, what a shot by Steph, because I'll do that on the YouTube show, the podcast, the TV show, or something else. So I there's there's very little running that can be done when you're on national television every single day. You just might have to wait for the actual show to get my takes on things. And with that, we'll wrap today's show. See you guys all with Colin in about

ninety minutes. Again, I'm not gonna tweet about that appearance. It's still gonna happen. And then I'll see you on the TV show in a few hours. Great job demands, talk to everybody soon, See you guys. Thanks to Blue Duck, thanks to Volume, Thanks DraftKings. We'll train